Systems Engineer

Morson Edge; Caddington; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Morson Edge is seeking a Systems Engineer to support satellite communication solutions across land, sea and air domains. The role requires guiding systems engineering activities from concept through retirement, with emphasis on stakeholder needs, requirements, and architecture.

The candidate will engage in modelling, verification, validation and interface management, ensuring a robust lifecycle approach and readiness for UK security clearance as required.

Qualifications

• Must have a broad Systems Engineering background covering business or mission analysis, stakeholder needs definition, system requirements and architecture definition.
• Experience with verification, validation and integration activities across the lifecycle.
• Ability to plan and lead technical and managerial efforts to transform customer needs into a solution.

Responsibilities

• Identify stakeholders and capture their needs and expectations for the solution.
• Define the solution boundaries and elicit/validate requirements across the lifecycle.
• Design and define architectures in collaboration with IS/IT specialists.
• Lead modelling using systems engineering techniques.
• Lead performance and other analyses to support decisions.
• Perform trade-off analyses to choose the best solution.
• Validate architecture and manage interfaces.
• Lead verification of implementation and interfaces.
• Lead operational and in-service evaluation.
• Lead impact analysis of design changes throughout the lifecycle.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements definition

Architecture design

Verification & validation

Lifecycle management

Stakeholder analysis

Export control compliance

Education

Degree in engineering

Chartered Engineer

Job description

£44.85 Per Hour PAYE / £60 Per Hour Umbrella

Role Overview

This team is responsible for the satellite communication solutions which include antenna equipment and management software. The work of the team encompasses solutions for land, sea and air domains

Responsibilities

The Systems Engineer role involves

• Support the Systems Engineering process, culture, competency and discipline, on day-to-day business activities, enabled by adequate Methods & Tools (M&T) products and services.
• This support spans all aspects of the system lifecycle.

The successful candidate will be subject to UK National Security Clearance in order to undertake related work in accordance with business needs.

Tasks and accountabilities

Your main tasks and responsibilities will include (from concept development, to operational deployment and operations, until retirement):

• Identify the stakeholder for the solution to be developed and capture their needs and expectations.
• Identify boundary of the solution to be developed.
• Elicit and validate requirements whilst considering the complete system lifecycle.
• Design and define possible architectures, in collaboration with IS/IT specialists, considering the functions and other requirements (constraints).
• Lead modelling using appropriate systems engineering techniques.
• Lead analysis (e.g., performance).
• Perform trade-off analysis in order to select the best solution fulfilling the requirements.
• Validate architecture.
• Define and manage interface requirements.
• Lead verification of the implementation and its interfaces.
• Lead operational and in-service evaluation.
• Lead impact analysis of any design change request during the entire product lifecycle.

Skill Set

Essential

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:

• Be able to address the following aspects of a System Engineering appraisal:
  • Business or Mission Analysis
  • Stakeholders Needs Definition
  • System Requirements Definition
  • System Analysis and architecture definition
  • Design definition
  • Verification, Validation & integration
  • Transition to Operation
• Understand and implement 'Systems Engineering' approach and way of working (this includes an understanding of how to develop a system through its whole lifecycle and define a strategy that considers customer's expectations)
• Plan total technical and managerial effort required to transform a set of customer needs, expectations, and constraints into a solution.
• Ability to self-determine Export Control Information and conduct Export Classification in accordance with Export Control Laws and Directives and Methods.
• Ability to safeguard export-controlled data.

Desirable

• Knowledge in the following areas is preferred but not essential:
  • Military standards
  • Military satellite communications systems

Preferred Academic Qualifications:

• ? Educated to at least Degree Level or equivalent in a recognised engineering discipline as recognised by the IET.
• ? The candidate should preferably hold a Chartered Engineer status and a member of the IET or other equivalent body